May 10, 2020 Cape Breton fiddle workshop with David Greenberg

Zoom workshop on May 10, 2020 with David Greenberg. Video Index below... 0:00 A few tunes and introduction 4:48 Lord Alexander Gordon's Strathspey (William Marshall) - demo 5:33 Timing explanation of CB-style strathspey 8:35 A scale, then with open-string ornaments 10:10 Left hand position 11:10 Holding the vln to push bow both directions 13:15 Lord AG's strathspey -1st half phrase-by-phrase 14:25 Adding warble and drones 16:25 Sixteenth-note rhythmic options 20:42 Different ways to connect notes 21:18 Double-up bowing (first one popped) 22:20 Looped bowing 23:10 Straight-slur bowing 24:52 Lord AG's - end of first half 26:12 Lord AG's - whole first half 27:20 Up-driven bow 28:57 Lord AG's - 2nd half phrase-by-phrase 29:40 Pull-in/Hammer-on ornament 36:40 Triplet rhythmic flexibility 39:06 Lord AG's - whole second half 40:12 Variation - bar B1 vs B5 41:07 Lord Alexander Gordon's Strathspey - whole tune 43:05 Warbles 49:17 Miss Robertson's Reel (Robert Mackintosh) - 1st half harmonic structure 52:06 Miss Robertson - 1st half phrase-by-phrase 53:00 Double-stop substitution 57:40 Miss Robertson - whole 1st half 58:35 Miss Robertson bassline - 1st half 59:12 Flicks 1:00:47 Miss Robertson - 2nd half phrase-by-phrase 1:06:18 Miss Robertson - whole 2nd half 1:07:18 Bassline to Miss Robertson's Reel - second half 1:08:30 Connecting from strathspey to reel (blurring the lines) 1:12:40 Strathspey & Reel (with piano) 1:15:28 Question about learning from the page vs learning by ear (especially as it pertains to classically trained violinists)

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